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* Helping community member Philipp Grunewald set his [http://www.km4dev.org/group/collaborative-research research agenda] with an innovative research tool | * Helping community member Philipp Grunewald set his [http://www.km4dev.org/group/collaborative-research research agenda] with an innovative research tool | ||
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Appendix 3 of IFAD synthesis project: Phase One Report illustrates the several ways in which the IFAD Funded Synthesis Project has sought to involve KM4Dev in the issues that were being explored. Beyond those listed below, all of the discussions of the several mini-grants also serve to engage KM4Dev into a larger conversation about its future.
- Helping community member Philipp Grunewald set his research agenda with an innovative research tool
- Began with discussions about the role of researchers in KM4Dev and how researchers could contribute without unduly in order to establish boundaries between researcher and community
- exploring a tool that crowd-sources ideas and is intermediate between a closed-form survey and personal interviews
- exposed the “service vs community” question as important and popular
- Currently organized as a “group” on the Ning site.
- Launching a KM4Dev Newsletter using a wiki template
- Began with exchanges on the KM4Dev list that were summarized on the wiki
- Acting on suggestions in the L&M Baseline study (it’s a suggestion that comes up repeatedly)
- Goal
- providing a mirror for community activity
- public voice for KM4Dev
- Challenge of dividing production work into parts that are small enough for individuals to take on
- building on the “discussion” template in the Wiki (developed by Davide Piga) so that production can be asynchronous and easily incorporate multiple contributors
- Currently involves: Okey Nwoke, Simone Staiger Rivas, Julian Goh, Tina Hetzels, Dar Maxwell, David Piga and John Smith
- Developing Pathways to involvement and leadership in KM4Dev
- Began with an email exchange with Anna Downie
- Mentioned as an idea the L&M Baseline study
- “You are here” the next step is “there”
- Goal
- Greater transparency
- Greater accessibility by providing an orientation to KM4Dev
- Adjoining communities -- frequented by KM4Dev members
- Began with an email exchange with one community member (Charles Dhewa) and grew from there.
- Can be a method for clarifying community identity
- a resource for business model comparison (e.g., how are “we” different from “them”?)
- Could lay the ground for business model analysis and discussion
- How services fit or co-opt other communities
- KM4Dev “futures”
- How to plan and create a summary for important conversation
- Began with an email exchange with Ana Maria Ponce about her summary of a Focused Conversation [clarify]
- Focused conversations as intermediate between a large funded project and the give and take of everyday discussion
- Ana Maria Ponce had useful but invisible tactics bridging between the Ning, the Wiki and the Dgroup discussion that merit documentation and could enable emulation
- First draft in a Google Doc (KM4Dev discussion summaries); will be moved to the wiki after some comments are collected.
- Finding SIWA (and its absence)
- Checking on archives and the existence of the email list
- Finding erstwhile group leaders
